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Andy Lawin, a senior from Los Angeles, screams in celebration after Kansas scored during the second half of their game against UCLA Thursday night at Allen Fieldhouse. The game featured nine ties and 12 lead changes, as Kansas' Mario Little hit a free throw with 0.7 seconds left in the game to seal a 77-76 victory for the Jayhawks. Kansas improved to 7-0 on the season, and will play the nationally ranked Memphis Tigers at Madison Square Garden in New York.
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ORGANIZATIONS
Local girls to get new self-image
In the spring, KU women will teach practical life skills
VOLUME 123 ISSUE 72
Chelsea Freeman, a freshman from Wichita, helps children from the Boys and Girls Club create handmade ornaments during the Mentors in the Lives of Kids' (M.L.I.K.) annual holiday party in the ballroom of the Kansas Union. M.L.I.K. formed a new group, Girls Club, that promotes social and financial independence for fifth- and sixth-grade girls. The curriculum is designed to empower young girls and teach them that a man isn't necessary for a successful life. The group begins its lessons in January. M.L.I.K. is run by two coordinators, senior Laura Davis and sophomore Carlye Yanker.
BY SAMANTHA COLLINS
scollins@kansan.com
Chris Bronson/KANSAN
A group of University of Kansas students thinks that elementary school girls can benefit from a more practical kind of education, specifically geared toward young females.
The on-campus student group Mentors in the Lives of Kids, or M.I.L.K., created a new program, the Girls Club, this year to teach life skills and promote economic self-sufficiency for fifth- and sixth-grade girls. M.I.L.K. is run through the Center for Community Outreach. The Boys and Girls Club of Lawrence provides affordable after-school care for about 1,200 children. Laura Davis, a senior from Lawrence and co-coordinator of M.I.L.K., said the group often worked with the Boys and Girls Club and thought the new program would work well with the children there.
The 10-week curriculum addresses issues like stereotypes and how the girls view themselves, how women are viewed in advertisements, spending, credit cards, sales tax, budgeting and savings. The program will start next semester in January.
Carlyle Yanker, a sophomore from St. Louis and co-coordinator of M.I.L.K., said she thought it would be easier to work with all
If you want to get involved with the Mentors in the Lives of Kids, e-mail: milk@ku.edu.
girls because successful college women would be running the program.
She said she believed it was important to target girls at an early age to address these issues and the truth surrounding the expectations and stereotypes, which was why a large section of the curriculum was devoted to self-image.
"They can be part of a cool, exclusive girls club." Yanker said.
Davis said stereotypes and expectations of the "perfect woman" often cause young girls to become self-conscious.
"They are constantly inundated with imagery of women that they are expected to look like or act like." Davis said.
Devon Cantwell, a junior from Topeka and a member of M.I.L.K., said at the end of the program the young girls will hold a bake sale to use their newly learned skills. She said the bake learning would teach them
"The man doesn't always have to make the money," Cantwell said.
Davis said she hoped to provide mentorship during the "awkward period" and help girls become individually stronger.
girls that they don't need a man in their lives to be successful.
"Any girl or woman who is confident and independent is bound to have a much brighter future," Davis said. "It will be the future that she chooses to have, whatever that may be."
Report: Number of international students increasing at University
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International students, who come mainly from China, Saudi Arabia Indonesia and the Republic of Korea, now make up 7 percent of the nearly 30,000-person student body.
FINALS|3A
For an'A,'do more than study
Students should also take care of their mental and physical well-being to succeed with finals. Student Success has launched a new website with schedules for stress-busting events and exercise classes to help students out with this stressful time of year.
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CAMPUS
Committee's decision on AD not finalized
BY STEPHEN
MONTEMAYOR
smontemayór@kansan.com
Amid speculation that the University was going to announce its next athletic director by week's end, the search committee's leader said a decision has not yet been made.
Ray Evans, the search committee leader, said the pool of candidates has been pared down but would not name finalists for the position. The search is "well past the early stages," Evans said.
"We've got a little ways to go still," said Evans, who is a KU alumnus and founder of Pegasus Capital Management, a Kansas City-based firm.
Earlier this week there had been speculation that a new athletics director would be named by Friday. University of Tulsa Athletic Director Lawrence "Bubba" Cunningham is said to be a candidate. A plane from Oklahoma was scheduled to land at Lawrence Municipal Airport on Thursday afternoon. Reporters from several local media outlets went to the airport because of rumors, which turned out to be
The committee is searching for a replacement for Lew Perkins, who retired ahead of schedule in September. Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little previously said she hoped to have a new athletic director by the spring semester.
Evans is also a member of the KU Alumni Association's Board of Directors and KU Endowment's Board of Trustees. Among the 10-person board's considerations, Evans said, is finding someone with a successful background in football. Evans said conference realignment and a possible playoff in the sport's future highlight the sport's revenue generating possibilities.
false, that Cunningham may have been on the plane.
Evans said the committee has visited with "several dozen" candidates through teleconferences and face-to-face meetings. He said the committee won't name candidates because it doesn't want to dissuade those already in high profile positions.
"We're getting closer and closer", Evans said.
— Edited by Michael Bednar
LOCAL
BY GARTH SEARS gsears@kansan.com
"As a poor college student, you cross your fingers that this one didn't pop your tire or bend your rim," Strusz said.
Irony can be expensive. Emily Strusz hit a "ginormous" pothole on Iowa Street two weeks ago — while she was driving her car to the shop for an oil change and tuneup.
No luck. The mechanics told Strusz, a senior from Republic, Mo., that her rim was cracked and bent. A new one cost her $150.
"I'm used to hitting potholes
"Notorious"
in this town," she said. "Lawrence is notorious for potholes and bumps in the road."
But Lawrence may now have a solution to its annual pothole problem — a long-lasting fix for any time of the year.
If you search "Eudora, KS potholes" on Google, you get 1,500 results. For Topeka, there are 15,000 results. Going east down K-10, DeSoto has 21,000, Olathe has 19,000 and Overland Park has 37,000 Google results.
But search "Lawrence, KS
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KU beat out UCLA in the final second after a controversial call sent Mario Little to the free throw line with the game tied at 76 and 0.7 seconds left. Check out our post-game coverage.
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Kansas lucks out with late foul call
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